'The stigma of working at home - sometimes called shirking from home - will be gone, post-COVID,' he said. He says trying to work with young children around is a 'productivity disaster.' But longer term, with proper conditions, he sees the trend rising. 'The kids thing is really hard,' he said. One of his four children burst into the room where he was on a conference call, shouting their nickname for him, Doodoo. Telework wherever and whenever possible, federal public servants toldīloom has had his own mishaps, as well.'The non-unionized workplace has less control, because generally, the employer is able to institute policies that they think are appropriate, and employees have limited ability to refuse reasonable practices.' 'Unionized workers have more control over the privacy aspects of their workplaces,' he said. 'We used to measure their performance by results - the number of meetings booked - but now, potential customers aren't responding the way they used to, and we have to measure against the time the team is putting in, even if it's not producing a result.' Workers limited in what they can rejectĪndrew Monkhouse, an employment lawyer in Toronto, works with small- and medium-sized businesses and often represents employees in disputes. And I think it helps people stay more focused as well.'įregeau said the software provides an alternate way to measure productivity. We need to know what people are working on. 'We had half of our company working remotely before this, and since COVID, now everybody is remote,' he said. 'We need to be holding people accountable. The company's chief operating officer, Jackson Fregeau, says Revenue Accelerator signed with Hubstaff close to a year ago but has found it to be even more valuable during the pandemic.

Its team of 25 employees helps other companies, mostly in the technology field, find and develop sales leads. Revenue Accelerator of Vancouver is a company that uses Hubstaff's services. Jackson Fregeau, COO, Revenue Accelerator We need to be holding people accountable. 'If you're managing projects and you're used to managing somebody by looking over their shoulder and that person is right there, and then all of the sudden they're not, how do you get that control in place?'Ĭompanies pay between $7 and $10 US per month for each employee on the system. Dave Nevogt, co-founder of Hubstaff in Indianapolis, says his firm has received plenty of interest from Canadian companies that want to better monitor their workers’ productivity while working at home.

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